The Top 25 Millionaires & Billionaires That Are Using Their Money To Save The World

When you think of the word “Philanthropist“, people such as Bill & Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett & Oprah Winfrey may come to mind. These are just a few of the many super rich that have devoted their lives to changing the world for the better through the riches and Success they have made over their lives. Read on to see the list of the Top 25 Richest Millionaires & Billionaires giving away their money to make this world a better place.

Billionaires Giving Away Money

#25 Lee and Jane Seidman

Amount donated in 2010: $42 million

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiary: University Hospitals in Cleveland

Background: Seidman is the retired founder and president of the Motorcars Group, a Cleveland-based conglomerate of car dealerships. He pledged in 2010 to give away 90% of his wealth before the end of the year.

#24 Larry Ellison

Background: Ellison, the founder of Oracle, started his foundation in 1997 for biomedical research.

#23 Bennett S. LeBow

Amount donated in 2010: $49 million

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiary:Drexel University

Background: LeBow is the chairman and CEO of Borders and chairman of the Vector Group, a holding company for manufacturers of cigarettes. He’s a graduate of Drexel and the university’s business school bears his name.

#19 (tie) Ming Hsieh

Background: Hsieh founded AMAX Information Technologies, a computer server and storage systems maker, and Cogent, which develops automated fingerprint-identification systems. He’s a graduate of the school, as well as a trustee.

#19 (tie) Ned Evans

Background: Evans, who passed away last year, was a private investor and the chairman of publishing company Macmillan from 1979 to 1989. He was also a well-known horse breeder, as well as an alumnus of Yale.

#18 Charles E. Kaufman

Amount donated in 2010: $53.3 million (estimated bequest)

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiaries: The Pittsburgh Foundation and other charities

Background: Kaufman, who passed away last year, was an investor and the former director of purchasing at pharmaceutical company Merck. His gift will support research in biology, chemistry, and physics

#17 Bill and Karen Ackman

Background: Ackman is the founder of New York-based hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management. Along with his wife, he created the Pershing Square Foundation in 2006 to support education, human rights, social entrepreneurship, and other causes.

#15 Henry C. Jr. and Jane Woods

Amount donated in 2010:$67 million (bequest)

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiaries: Lawrenceville School and North Shore Country Day School

Background: Woods is the heir to the Sahara Coal Company fortune. The bulk of last year’s donation went to the Lawrenceville School, a private school in New Jersey from which he graduated and where he was a longtime teacher and chair of the English department.

#14 David and Patricia Atkinson

Amount donated in 2010: $80 million

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiary: Cornell University

Background: Atkinson is a former partner of Miller, Anderson & Sherrerd, a money management firm. He now runs Atkinson & Company, a private investment business he owns with his wife. Their gift went towards a research center focusing on energy, sustainability and the environment.

#13 Juanita Kious Waugh

Amount donated in 2010: $83.7 million (estimated bequest)

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiaries: The Mayo Clinic, Saint Joseph’s College in Indiana

Background: Waugh, who passed away last year, managed her family’s farms and was the heir to part of their cattle, farming and banking fortune. She and her parents had been patients of the Mayo Clinic.

#12 Terrence and Kim Pegula

Background: Pegula founded East Resources, an oil and gas exploration and development company, which he sold to Royal Dutch Shell in 2010 for $4.7 billion. The donation from Pegula, an alumnus, will go towards the university’s hockey program.

#10 (tie) Mark Zuckerberg

Background: Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, made a huge donation to his own foundation, which will support programs that benefit the school system in Newark, N.J. The sum will be paid out over five years.

#7 Frances Lasker Brody

Background: Brody, who passed away in 2009, was the heir to both the fortune of her father, an advertising pioneer, and her husband Sidney Brody, a real estate magnate. She was a member of the library’s board of overseers, and her donation was largely funded by the sale of her vast art collection.

#6 Leonard Blavatnik

Background: Blavatnik is the founder of Access Industries, a major holding company. He did not attend Oxford, but decided the university was the right choice after learning that it wanted to create a school dedicated to “improving government and public-policy practices globally.”

#5 Edythe and Eli Broad

Background: Broad is the founder and chairman of homebuilder KB Home Corporation and financial services company SunAmerica. The couple’s foundation supports civic programs, contemporary art museums, education, and medical and scientific research. Broad is also funding a new art museum in Los Angeles.

#4 Irwin and Joan Jacobs

Beneficiaries: University of California at San Diego Health System, Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

Background: Jacobs is a co-founder of Qualcomm, the wireless communications company. The bulk of their donation went to the UCSD health system, which is building a new medical center to be named after the couple.

#3 T. Denny Sanford

Beneficiaries: Sanford Health Foundation, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and the Florida Hospital for Children

Background: The noted philanthropist is chairman of United National Corporation, a banking business in South Dakota. His most recent gift to his foundation will establish a national institute for research and treatment of breast cancer.

#1 George Soros

Background: Soros is a financier and the chair of Soros Fund Management, which manages hedge funds. He’s also the founder of Open Society Foundations, which supports human rights organizations and democratic institutions.

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